Badge.



No. 821,547. PATENTED MAY 22, 1906.

N. STAFFORD.

BADGE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 16, 1905.

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NELSON STAFFORD, OF BROOKLYN,

COMPANY, OF NEW YORK,

BADGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 22, 1906.

Application led January 16, 1905. Serial No. 241,178.

To all whom it may concern. i

Be it known that I, NELSON STAFFORD, a citizen of the United States, residing at the borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, of New York, have invented an Improvement in Badges, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a badge, name, or designation plate such as are worn especially on the caps by conductors, baggagemen, motormen, starters, or other employees as evidence of their position or employment. Heretofore these devices have usually been of cheap construction and flimsy character and not possessed of such lasting qualifications as to recommend or make them desirable or durable, and in these badges the fastening devices were not only visible, but in such a position as to prevent the badge lying close to the article upon which it was fastened.

In the device of my invention the badge, name, or designation plate is made of separable parts which when assembled and connected present a unitary structure of pleas ing appearance adapted to lie flat against the material or article to which it is secured and in which the fastening devices are invisible and the useful life ofwhich is greater than the name thereon or the strip of material connected thereto and on which the name is impressed.

I prefer to employ a recessed ornamental base-plate and provide the same with means for connection to material or to an article and with openings to receive the fastening devices of a frame-plate adapted to fit in the recess of the base-plate and to be connected thereto by said fastenings. The name is preferably impressed. or placed upon a strip of Celluloid or similar suitable material slipped into the frame-plate before the same is placed in and secured to the base-plate. These parts after assembling present the appearance of a unitary structure.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation representing the device of my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal and horizontal section at the dotted line @c of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is an elevation, and Fig. 4 a transverse section, at the dotted line x Fig. 3, of the recessed base-plate. Fig. 5 is an elevation, and Fig. 6 a transverse section, at the dotted. line y y, Fig. 5, of the frame-plate. Fig. 7 isan elename-plate.

a represents the recessed base-plate. This may be straight, as shown in Figs. 8 and 4, or curved, as shown in Figs. l and 2, and it is preferably rovided with an ornamental border and enc s a and with depressed end ortions a2 and with apertures 2 near the en s in the depressed portions a2. As a means of attaching this base-plate to a cap or other article .or material I prefer to employ the wire loops 3, which from the outer surface drop into and through the apertures 2 and project from the back of the naine-plate. I prefer also to employ apertures, such as 4 or such as 5, through the base of the name-plate and in the depressed ends a2, as hereinafter described.

The frame-plate l) may be flat, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, or curved, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. It comprises a plate of metal with a rolled-over or overturned edge adapted to receive the name-plate d, which is preferably slipped into the said frame-plate from one end, the said overturned or rib edge l1 of the frame-plate forming a slideway. For the purpose of introducing the name-plate d and yet preserving the outer appearance or continuity of the continuous frame-plate I prefer to provide a removable end c, with an overturned or rib edge c', the ends of which are beveled to coincide and form a miter with the free beveled ends of the rib edge W, the plate portion of this removable end in use sliding behind or back of the frame-plate 'b and when in this position the rib edge c matching with the rib edge of the frameplate. This frame-plate is provided with recessed openings 6 or 8. This frame-plate is adapted to lit down into the recess of the base-plate, as shown in Figs. l and 2, and the openings 6 of the frame-plate and 4 of the base-plate are provided for metallic fasteners, such as the McGill fasteners, of bentup flat strips of metal which pass through said openings, the heads remaining in the recesses of the frame-plate surrounding the openings 6 and the points of the fasteners being bent back against the under side of the base-plate a. The openings 8 are also recessed and provided for the use of an eyelet passing through the same and through the openings 5 of the base-plate and being upset on the under or against the back surface of the said basevation, and Fig. 8 a transverse section, of the IOO Vvices as the McGill fasteners may 2 821,547 plate. have shown these forms of open- 1 comprising a recessed base-plate, a frameings, as 1t 1s obvious that such fastening del plate fitting and received in the base-plate,

said frame-plate being composed of a strip of metal with an overturned rib edge-on three sides, a removable end thereto comprising a plate adapted to set behind or back of the frame-plate and having a rib edge with beveled ends adapted to fit the beveled rib ends of the frame-plate and complete the continuity thereof, a name-plate received into the frame-plate and fastening devices connecting the frame-plate and base-plate, concealed by the name-plate, and other devices for connecting the base-plate to an Varticle for sup be eml ployed, or such fastening devices as eyelets may be employed, at the discretion of the party making the badge, such devices being l the equivalents of one another for fastening l the two parts together. It is of course apparent that where the eyelets are employed a much more rigid form of fastening is the result than where the McGill fasteners are employed, and it is also equally apparent that the eyelets may be employed on the left-hand end, as shown, and the McGill fasteners on the right-hand end, thus providing for detaching or separating the parts for the removal of the McGill fasteners, so that the right-hand end of the frame-plate may have a certain free movement by which it may be lifted out of the recessed baseplate for the removal of the'end c, so as to slip out one name-plate d and insert'another in the place thereof, after which the parts are pressed down into place and the points of the McGill fasteners again overturned against the back of the base-plate.

The McGill fasteners are shown in Fig. 2 at 7 Y and the eyelets are shown in Fig. 2 at 9. As a convenient manner of fastening the badge in position to a cap or other article or to material I have shown in Fig. 2 at 10 a wellknown form of fastening device adapted on the under surface of the cap to be slipped over the wire loop 3, and I have also shown a rod 1 1, which may be slipped through both of the wire loops on the under side of the article to which the badge is to be connected. These are equivalent fasteners.

From the foregoing description it will be apparent that `the recessed portions of the fra1ne-plate surrounding the apertures 6 and 8 rovide beneath the surface of the nameplate d for the heads or projecting parts of the fastening devices, and it will be apparent also that the depressed ends a2 of the baseplate. a form receptacles for the free ends of the loop-wire, so that when the frame-plate b is in position in the base-plate it will contact with the inner surface of the base-plate and extend over the -depressed ends, coming above the free ends of the loop-wire, so as to hold said loop-wires in position in the apertures 2 and prevent their accidental displacement, the fastening devices thus being not only effective, but concealed from view.

I claim as my invention- 1. A badge, name or designation plate, comprising a recessed base-plate, a frameplate fitting and received in the base-plate, a l name-plate received into the frame-plate and fastening devices connecting the frame-plate and base-plate, concealed by the name-plate, and other devices for connecting the baseplate to an article for support.

2. A badge, name or designation plate,

ort.

3. In a badge, naine or designation plate, a recessed base-plate having depressed end pore tions and apertures therein for connection with a frame-plate, and other apertures to receive devices forV connecting the said base? plate to an article for support, in combination with a frame-plate comprising a strip of metal with overturned ribA edges forming a slideway, said frame-plate having-recessed portions with apertures therein adjacent to the ends coinciding with'the first-named apertures in the depressed ends of the baseplate, the said apertures providing for fastening through the apertures of the frameplate and the apertures of the base-plate to connect said two parts together when the frame-plate is fitted into the recessed base-plate.

4; In a badge, name or designation plate, a recessed base-plate having depressed end portions and aperturesV therein for'connection with a frame-plate, and other apertures to receive devices for connecting the said baseplate to an'article for support, in combination with a frame-plate comprising a strip of metal with overturned rib edges forming a slideway, said frame-plate having recessed portions with apertures therein adjacent to the ends coinciding with the first-named apertures in the depressed ends of the baseplate, the said apertures providing forfastening devices of suitable character passing through the apertures of the frame-plate and the apertures of the base-plate to connect said two parts together when the frameand a name-plate of celluloid or other similar the said frame-plate and when in position to cover over and conceal the fastening devices connecting the frarneeplate to the base-plate.

5. In a badge, name or designation plate, a recessed base-plate having depressed end portions and apertures therein for connection with a frame-plate, and other apertures to receive devices for connecting the said baseplate to an article for support, in combination with a frame-plate comprising a strip of metal with overturned rib edges forming a devices of suitable character passingV suitable material adapted to be slipped into slideway, a removable end thereto compris- IOO plate is fitted into the recessed base-plate,

ing a plate adapted to set behind or back of the traine-plate and having a rib edge With beveled ends adapted to it the bevel rib ends of the fra1ne-p1ate and complete the continuity thereof, a name-plate received into the frameplate, said frame-plate having recessed portions With apertures therein adjacent to the ends coinciding With the irst-narned apertures in the depressed ends ofthe base-plate, the said apertures providing for fastening devices of suitable character passing through the apertures of the frame-plate and the apertures of the base-plate to connect said two parts to* gether when the frame-plate is iitted into the recessed base-plate.

Signed by Ine this 29th day of November, 04.

N. STAFFORD.

Witnesses:

GEO. T. PINCKNEY, S. T. HAVILAND. 

